Dallas Video Festival guru Bart Weiss stopped by the office this week to talk about the 20th DVF, which gets underway next week and promises a meaty schedule — and I don’t just mean the ’70s porn homage Viva, which screens … um … look, the DVF’s site isn’t exactly…
The sight of Nate Newton, all 340 pounds of him, trying to hide behind a tree would have been funny. If he hadn’t been trying to avoid being spotted and arrested by police. At an illegal dog fight. As Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick prepares for the first of what…
The most memorable sentence from Belo’s second-quarter earnings results, released this morning, is this one: Newspaper Group segment costs and expenses decreased 9.2 percent versus the second quarter of 2006, due in part to the 2006 headcount reductions at The Dallas Morning News and The Press-Enterprise, and lower newsprint and…
Well, Andy Uhler’s piece about Deep Ellum just aired on KUT-FM, and despite Jeff Liles’ earlier concerns, no, it wasn’t a story about how Austin’s so much better than Dallas. Fact is, Uhler was awfully respectful of the area’s musical legacy and its potential; if nothing else, the story serves…
Two days into Dallas Cowboys training camp down the street from the Alamo, and it’s clear that new coach Wade Phillips is folksy and boring and folksy and country and folksy and really, really close to being human NyQuil. Oh, yeah, and, if you pay attention long enough, he’s kind…
Just ran into George Michael over at the Washington Mutual at Knight Street and Lemmon Avenue. I almost didn’t recognize him, considering he looks like a wax approximation of what George Michael is supposed to look like. I was filling out my deposit slip when I heard someone with an…
Say it ain’t so: KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd is no longer KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd. Unfair Park just received a copy of the memo Channel 11’s president and general manager Steve Mauldin sent to the staff today, and he celebrates Dodd’s myriad achievements at the CBS affiliate without offering a…
Here’s SMU’s new marketing gimmick for the upcoming college football season. Get it? A pony? And an “up” arrow? Pony. Up. Awesome. And who’s behind the whiz-bang promotion? Says SMU’s athletic department on its Mustangs Musings blog: Why a Pony and a drawn arrow? No SMU lettering? The marketing department…
I know — all you really want are links to bootlegged recordings, right? So here’s another with tenuous local ties: Derek And The Dominos recorded live in Cincinnati on November 26, 1970. Sure, Eric Clapton has recorded at the very same famous Dallas address, 508 Park Avenue, where Robert Johnson…
As there was no new Top Chef last night, here instead is some actual food news. Over the weekend, the missus and I noticed a curious sign planted near the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Webb Chapel Road. It read, “Le Cordon Bleu.” You don’t say. How fancy. And in…
Based on the first day of Dallas Cowboys training camp, Tony Romo is ready. Ready to put last year’s disappointing end behind him: “I’m not a holder anymore, thankfully.” Ready to become the undisputed leader of America’s Team: “I really think we can do something special this season. I need…
Tom Hicks’ new stadium looks awfully nice. Kinda Jerry Jones-y. Too bad it’s in England. Hey, lookie there: Tom Hicks is about to build a $615-million stadium that holds up to 76,000 folks — and, smart move, he’s using McKinney Ave.-based HKS, Inc., the same architecture engineering firm responsible for,…
I could find nothing about this in this morning’s Dallas Morning News, but the San Antonio Express-News notes yesterday’s arrest in Dallas of former schoolteacher Carolyn Blake. The U.S. government alleges that Blake, along with her brother and sister-in-law, are involved in “the largest Army contract-rigging and bribery case to…
Two weeks ago, a pretty Irish lady who also happens to be the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Dallas to talk about a city she is opening in Italy. There, hundreds, maybe thousands, of orphaned, abused and otherwise displaced refugee children will come to live in safety and…
Blegh: City Hall watchers tell Buzz that it’s likely that the Dallas city secretary will announce this week that council member Angela Hunt’s anti-Trinity toll road petition drive collected more than enough signatures to require a vote on the project. OK, by “City Hall watchers” we mean either the homeless…
After more than six months of operating with two judges instead of four, the Dallas immigration court is finally getting one replacement. Still, Judge Richard Randall Ozmun of El Paso will be arriving in October to a court that’s so backlogged that new hearings are being scheduled as far out…
Off the Mark Mean girl: It is very obvious that this review (“Do It Yourself,” by Merritt Martin, July 12) was written by someone who was just trying to be mean and hateful. It appears that they have a personal issue with Michael Mark’s Trattoria and/or the Canyon Creek area…
News that some abused and neglected children have ended up sleeping in offices at Child Protective Services highlights the need for a kind of care that most consider a relic of Dickens’ time: residential care facilities, or orphanages, if you will. Since January 1, when CPS adopted new regulations for…
Click here for more photos from this story Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to reveal bloody meat, dark red and glistening in the sun. Working…
We had many fine entries in our caption contest today; thanks to the Friends who played along for Wilco tix. Here are just three of our favorites: Southside on Lamar, where toxic gas fumes are on the house! It’s finally gone … wait, Deep Ellum is the other way …..
We’re pretty sure this photo of the Knights of Pythias Temple was taken many, many years ago. Whilst listening to the Deep Ellum deep-dishing on KERA-FM’s Think yesterday afternoon, I overhead Deep Ellum Association prez Gianna Madrini say something about how the Knights of Pythias Temple, located at 2551 Elm…
Janice Mixon — prophetess and, get this, former Dallas Police Department Officer of the Year. Which makes sense, when you think about it. Life is complicated. That’s all I can say for certain after hearing one of Pastor Sherman Allen’s prized “daughters” in ministry, Prophetess Janice Mixon, preach last Thursday…
